Word: air-raid
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...partly because of the porosity of human memory, partly because of man's inclination to simplify. The Great Blackout of 1965 was a cause of countless rumors; some people immediately assumed that it was the result of a Communist sabotage plot; others believed that it was an unannounced air-raid test by the U.S. Government. In the next stage, the rumormonger accents certain parts of the story that appeal to him. Last year in Washington, D.C., a rumor swept the black ghetto that Soul Singer James Brown had been killed shortly after finishing a concert in the city...
...older children, military training is part of the curriculum. In Pyongyang's Youth and Student Culture Palace, visitors watched primary-school children firing at wooden targets on which pictures of American soldiers were pasted. At a high school, Japanese newsmen observed an air-raid drill. "You never know when those Americans might wage war on us," said one of the teachers...
...unlikely by Western observers. Nonetheless, the Yugoslavs are preparing for the worst. Tito, fearing a Soviet-inspired attempt on his life, has taken special security precautions. Throughout the country, bomb shelters are being built. As an added touch of realism, Yugoslav airplanes drop smoke bombs on some cities during air-raid drills. Emulating the tactics of the Czechoslovak broadcasters, Yugoslav radio stations are setting up alternative facilities outside the cities so that they can keep the people informed in the event that the urban areas fall to invaders. The 300,000-man Yugoslav army, which is equipped with a mixture...
Miss McCarthy arrived in Hanoi two weeks before President Johnson restricted the bombing, and was nettled by the fact that she was hustled off to air-raid shelters up to six times a day because of the approach of U.S. warplanes. Still, some good resulted from the raids of the "air pirates." In one provincial town, for example, "you eat a fresh-caught carp under a red and white nylon canopy" that had been fashioned from a parachute from a shot-down U.S. warplane...
...arrived in Hanoi two days before that speech. There were six air-raid alerts during the first 24 hours. When Collingwood refused to go to the bomb shelters, he reports, "their little faces fell." He explained: "Look, you may not have any confidence in U.S. assurances that it will not hit population centers, but I do." Collingwood had no difficulties with the three bureaucrats assigned to escort him, but the North Vietnamese did hand-pick his cameraman, French Freelancer Roger Pic, who had done several sympathetic films. Collingwood also notes that "naturally, they took me to bomb sites" and trotted...